Thinking about performance
When planning automation rules for any system, you should ensure that they perform efficiently and do not consume more resources than absolutely necessary. This is essential to maintaining a well-behaved and responsive system.
You are introducing automation to enhance productivity and optimize time-consuming processes. The last thing you want is for the automation themselves to have a negative impact on the system performance.
The automation engine in Jira is designed to maximize performance wherever possible; however, there are some considerations you can take into account when authoring your rules to ensure they perform at their best. We'll take a look at some of these considerations in this section.
Using project-specific rules
The scope of a rule plays an important part when it comes to performance. It determines how many executions are initially queued for a given rule.
If you have 50 projects, for example, and a single global rule...